That's no egg... that's a space station!

[Rob1970]

Phase Two...

More eggs!!

Hmm... too small...

Better!

It needs a nose-job tho... Starting with a strip of 1.5x2mm styrene around the nose...

Creative clamping...

Building up the rim...

More styrene stock... until we have some mass to sand into shape...

And a lot (and I mean A LOT) of sanding to get it into shape...

Filled some holes with CA-glue, and the seams as well...

Can you see what it's going to be yet?

Some square tubing as a base for the canopy...

Front and rear...

Side one and two, one side trimmed up...

Time to do some framing...

All framed up...

And a hole for a loyal little Astromech...

Tomorrow we make some wings for this thing. How many? An x-number of wings perchance..?

More sooooon!

Rob

 

[CessnaDriver]

Your a styrene machine!

 

[Mike J.]

Thought you were building a Millennium Falcon for a second there... I guess the yolk's on me.

 

[mmhnc]

My kids would love these. Maybe if I start now I can have some finished for next Easter.

 

[morsesith21]

Oh an eggs-wing! Kinda looked like a cloud car for a second.

 

[Snow Builder]

Fantastic build -you're a styrene king.

 

[Kopesh]

This is indeed quite impressive. The attention to detail is only surpassed by the sheer absurdity of egg-based space stations and fighter ships. I, for one, am waiting on eggshells for an update.

-K

 

[Rob1970]

I AM CRACKING UNDER THE PRESSURE!!

Well, not really...

First, I made a template for the wing so I had an idea of the size and angles and stuff...

That gave me a sense of the size the engines should be. I started out by covering some tube with 1mm wide half-round strip of Evergreen. 8 strips in total, evenly spaced. Gotta love Evergreen...

...and then cut the resulting ribbed tube into engine sections...

I shaped the rear end and fitted a wider tube around the front end...

Made them all the same size and gave the rear of the engines a ring. Engines love rings...

Time to make some intakes. I started by closing off a bit of the larger size tube I already used on the other half of the engine.

Excess cut off and the whole thing sanded until it was round...

Cut to size, a hole drilled and reamed out so you get a nice intake shape. I attached it to the main body of the engine with a t-shaped bit of styrene.

The sticky-out bits of the T cut off and sanded smooth...

Repeat until cross-eyed and you have four engines. I greebled up the engines with some random panels too...

Back to the wing. After I cut out four wings using the template I made a second, slightly smaller template to make panels for on top of the wings.

I ended up with two tiny templates (numbered 1 and 2) and a spacer (marked X) to keep the space between the panels constant and a perfect fit for the engines. I marked the templates on some styrene and cut out enough panels to do the wings.

Panels fixed to the wings...

Laser cannons, from some stainless steel welding rod, half a ring of styrene tube...

Result!

Cannons fitted into some more tube glued to the wings...

And wings fitted to the hull...

And on to Phase Three...

More sooooon!

Rob

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

Awesome! You need to join this group here https://www.facebook.com/pages/Egg-Plane-Masters/336039606516035

EDIT: seems like you already did that

 

[BiggusDoggus]

so next up you need a squadron of Imperial Egg Fighters that you can scramble (see what I did there) to chase that Egg-Wing outta there .....

 

[Exterminator]

Hey, hurry up and get this finished ... g-r-r-r-r-r-r!!! :angry Can't you tell I'm eggs-asparated?! :facepalm

Before I get hustled off the premises, that's looking great! :thumbsup

 

[JediMichael]

This is getting eggxtremely ridiculous....

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

so next up you need a squadron of Imperial Egg Fighters that you can scramble (see what I did there) to chase that Egg-Wing outta there .....

This works even better in German: a T-EI Fighter (T-Egg fighter, pronounced like T.I.E.) group needs to go after that Eggs-Wing.

And where is Darth Vaders Advanced T.I.E. Eggs-1 ?

 

[rtunk]

Very nice rendition of an Eggs-Wing :lol
Have you seen the works of this folk? -> http://www.milto.net

Rainer

 

[Scarecrow Joe]

That Xwing cracks me up!

 

[Rob1970]

Phase Three...

What a surprise! Another egg! With a monocle!

Center-line ring...

It's the Ivory Snitch from that movie... what's it called again...

Ah yes... "Luke Potter and the Prisoner of Alderaan"...

Man, I loved that movie... especially when Gandalf told Luke; "You're a wizard, Luke..." and then cut off his hand with a free-range Bat'leth...

More sooooon!

Rob

 

[rbeach84]

Gooood drugs! ;^P

BTW, shouldn't that be an "Eggs-Wing" fighter?

R/ Robert

 

[vintageslant]

Is it me or can anyone else see a really p@@@D off looking eagle when they look at that x wing's nose?

 

[Caretaker10]

vintageslant. Good eye m8.

Rob, weer mooi werk man.. Nice job as usual..


Good luck,
Jim

 

[DAVIDYR1]

This project is eggceptional.

David